Combined sash holder and lock



COMBINED SASH HOLDER AND LOQK Filed Maf. 6, 1922 w. A l

eil-"F" COMIBNED SASH EOLDER AND LCE.

.Application filed March 6, 1922. Serial No. 541,547.

To all uff/.om i may concern.' spaced stops or 'notches 17, and a socket 18 Be it known that l, Lucius w/inrnn in one edge, the adjacent frame member 10 SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residbeing recessed as shown at 19 to register gat Obion Station, in the county of Obion with the socket and increase its dept as 5 and State of Tennessee, have invented cerillustrated in Fig. 2'. @0 tain new and useful improvements in Coin- Attached to the side rail of the sash 12 bined Sash Holders and Locks, oi which the adjacent to the plate 16 is a pin 20, and following is a specihcation. slidably engaging the pin by a longitudinally rhis invention relates to windows and directed slot 21, is a combined holding and l@ their sashes, and has for one oi its object-s locking plate represented as a whole at 22, (155 to provide a simply constructed combined the latterI reduced at one end at 23 to extend lock and controller device whereby the sash through the socket 18 and into the recess 19 may be securely locked in lowered or closed when the member 22 is in one position, as position, or held at any required open or shown in Fig. 1, and with a lateral toe 15 raised position without detaehing any of portion 2st to engage with the stops 17 one 70 the parts. at a time when the plate is in another posililith these and other objects in view the tion, illustrated in Fig. 2. invention consists in certain novel fea-'tures rlhus when the sash 12 is in its lowered of construction as hereinafter shown and position, the plate 22 can be disposed by its 2@ described and then specifically pointed out reduced end 23 through the socket 18 and 75 in the claims, and in the drawings illustrainto the recess 19, and thus firmly lock the tive of the preferred embodiment oit the sash in its closed and lowered position and invention in engagement with the window sill and Figure 1 is an elevation from the interior.l against the stool 11 as shown in Fig. 1, or En ot a portion of a window frame and its supported in open position at any point 80 sashes with the improved device applied, within the range of the step 17. with the improved device arranged to hold rEhe sash can be locked against any atthe sash closed and locked. tempt to open it from the outside, and like- Fig. 2 is a similar View partly in section. wise hold the sash from rattling, and take Si) with the improved device arranged to hold up any looseness which may develop. 85 the sash in open position. The members 16 and 23 are of metal and Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail illusmay be of any required metal or metallic trating the construction more fully, the seccompounds and plated or otherwise ornation being taken on the line 3*-3 of Fig. 2. mented or protected, and may be of any size Fig. l is an enlarged sectional detail on or strength to adapt the device to the size 90 the line d-l of Fig. 1. of the sash or the resistance or strains to Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail on which they will he subjected. the line 5-5 of Fig. 2. The slot 21 in the member 22 extends ob- Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view enliquely to the edge opposite to the toe 24, larged, of the combined holding and locking so that when the member is reversed in posimember. tion, as shown in Fig. 7, the obliquely di- Fig. Z is a detail view illustrating the rected edge will bear against the stop 15, andmanner of using the device as a sash holder. thus forni an effectual lock to hold the sash rlhe improved device may be adapted in any adjusted position, while at the same without material structural change lto wintime the reduced end 23 may be entered into dows of various sizes and construction, hut the socket 19 to lock the sash firmly in closed for the purpose of illustration a conventional position. Window frame and sash is shown in which The preferred embodiment of the inven- 10 represents portions o'f the side members tion is disclosed in the drawings and set of the frame, 11 the stool or sill portion. Yforth in the specication, but it will be un- 105 12 the lower sash, 13 the upper sash, 111 the ..erstood that modifications within the scope parting stop, and 15 the inside stop, these of t ie claimed invention may be made in arts being of the usual construction. the construction without departing from the Attached to one or both of the inside stops principle ot the invention or sacrificing any 55 15 is a metal strip 16 having a plurality of olits advantages. 11o

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as nevi7 is l. The combination With a Window including the frame and sash, said frame having a plurality of spaced stops' and a laterally directed socket, of a combined locking` and holding member reduced at one end to enter said socket and with a laterally directed toe at the other end to consecutively engage said stops, said member having a longitudinally directed slot, and a pin engaging in said sash and extending through said slot. v

2. The combination With` a Window including the frame and sash, a plate attached to said frame and formed with a plurality stops, and a pin attached to said sash and extending through said slot.

In testimony whereof, I afi-ix my signature hereto.

LUCIUS WALTER SMITH. 

